... and this is a closeup of the cover image I did... since I knew the image would be somewhat small on the cover itself, I wanted the colors to JUMP at you, AND at the time I was looking at LOTS and lots of Moebius' craaazeee color schemes, so that was another heavy influence in the color choices.

..and well, as someone who grew up in the 80's, I have a heavy heavy 'military-gear fetish', so I just wanted to draw a girl with a big ol' Russian style tank-helmet just 'cause!